Quotes Tagged "errors"

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help from strangers to accept, plus from mine a few have wept. Wept from joy, or from despair, or just from my vengeful stare. Ways I have, to look at stupid, make them see I am not Cupid. Make them see they are in error, for of truth I am a bearer. Most decide I'm just a bear, mauling at them, - like I care.

The general consensus is that we gain wisdom and learn from our failures and mistakes; however, many do not accept the rationale of their errors and thus continually repeat them; therefore, when we do not acknowledge our missteps ignorance prevails.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Err my friend, but be not defeated and keep on moving.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.